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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 999 days ago
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/llama_is_not_open_sou...
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This is an important drum to continue to beat, but it needs to be paired with the caveat that we are not legally certain that Llama's weights are actually copyrightable. We're also not certain how much IP protections around trade secrets would apply to weights in this situation. A lot of that is uncertain.

Llama is not Open Source but until we get a court case ruling one way or the other we don't know if it's actually locked-down in the way Facebook intends; and I want to strike a balance between (correctly) pointing out that Facebook is misusing the Open Source label while not ceding to Facebook's claims about how much it can legally constrain people who have never signed a single Llama TOS.